China Issues Policies to Support Cool Chain Logistics

Date:2014-05-22 Source:www.chinaspv.com

www.chinaspv.com: The Chinese government attaches great importance to cool chain logistics, introducing the related supporting policies in recent years. It makes higher requests for the industry prosperity and requires “speeding up of the building of the agricultural products cool chain system centering on low temperature storage and transportation by coolboxes across the country”, constructing or improving some agricultural wholesale and trade markets in the key production and sales areas. As well, it calls for ensuring cooling food freshness, sanitation and quality control in records, facilities construction for inspecting and verification, meanwhile, large-size slaughterhouses equipped with chilled meat workshops, large-scale meat wholesale market with freezers and retail chain with uniform implementation of delivery.

Both market scale and demand growth rate of China’s cooling chain logistics speed up, just the annual requirements of cooling food adds up to around 100 million tons, over 8% up yearly. Some Experts at air conditioner refrigerating point out that more than 10,000 supermarkets urgently introduce cooling chain technologies as well as seeking partners, not to mention agricultural markets. Big chances resulting from favorable policies and market demand lead many investors on cooling chain logistics.

The application of modern logistics and energy saving, emission reduction technology will improve the elementary facilities such as freezers and transportation equipments. Additionally, the related departments plan to strengthen the construction of large cold storage facilities, increasing the number of vehicles and the associated tools, conducting standardization of meat food wholesale market upon the demand on cooling chain distribution.

Among producers, processing companies and wholesale markets, the distribution of each unit attaches in various locations. Network technologies are required to serve integrating and planning of the responding resources in a unified manner, setting up systems of wholesale dealing, trade information and transportation conditions to enhance the competitiveness of the industry.